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Xyela - female

Xyela - Female
Sunderland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
April 6, 2012
Size: 4 mm
Just now I spotted something crawling on my shoulder, out of the corner of my eye, and it turned out to be this sawfly. I set it down on a dinner plate on my desk, and it ran around in a circle along the edge of the plate for ten minutes, apparently not realizing that it could fly.

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